Another case of Behringer cloning a piece of synth history, the ARP 2600. The original was on my wish list, the one you know will never happen. So Behringer really did a lot people happy by bringing this one to market. It’s a r-e-a-l-l-y nice semimodular synth, endlessly tweakable. Loads of patch points and, best of all, sliders! Sliders are so much more fun than knobs. Too bad they let in more dust into the units, but you can’t have everything. This is one of those sit-down-and-tweak-and-at-four-o-clock-in-the-morning-consider-going-to-bed-as-the-alarm-will-go-off-in-three-hours kind of machines. Again, hard to resist with the Behringer pricing.
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Got this as my on-the-road keyboard. Just a bit wider than my laptop, so it fits nicely in my bag. It will undoubtedly see more use during summers. Took it out for a spin a couple of times last summer, works like a charm.
Another Behringer clone-of-a-classic, this time the Sequential Circuits Pro One. I also have the original, and they do sound quite the same. So, again, for this price, no reason not to get it if you need live analog voices. Oh, patch points!
More Behringer clones. A noise machine definitely, in ARP Odyssey territory. Really fun and quirky sound, lots of modulation possibilities (plus the patch points), so definitely a fun thing to sit down with.
Behringer clones again. They’ve really chosen quite a nice set of synths to copy. This is quite a straightforward and basic synth, but the repeating envelopes make it special. The sound itself is great, as really is the case with practically all analogs I’ve ever tried. I guess I would call it “juicy”. However, it could definitely benefit from more patch points.